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The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation has increased its 2023 funding by 24% to The Clinical Mental Health Services in the Bronx (CCMH) project at Fordham University Graduate School of Education, from $250,000 in 2022 to $310,000. The CCMH project takes a multi-pronged approach and provides free individual and group counseling and workshops to assist Black, [...]

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The 41-year-old New York Education Policy Leadership Program (NYEPLP*) is, as of fall 2022, co-sponsored by the Fordham University Graduate School of Education and Putnam-Northern Westchester BOCES. Leading Fordham GSE’s involvement is Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy Division Chair Margaret Terry Orr, Ph.D. Since 1981, the program has provided a unique, yearlong professional development experience [...]

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A wide variety of students, for a broad range of reasons, are able to find an excellent academic home within the three divisions (curriculum and teaching; educational leadership, administration, and policy; and psychological and educational services) of Fordham’s Graduate School of Education. Director of Admissions and Enrollment Services Abraham Johnson notes, “Our students are investing [...]

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For the first session of the Research Consortium on Disability (RCD)’s Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Yi Ding, Ph.D., professor in the school psychology program, and Amanda Siegel, doctoral candidate in the school psychology program, presented their research on“The Impact of Structured Support Programming on Adjustment, Stress, and Coping in College Students with Learning Disabilities.” Ding and [...]

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The U.S. Department of Education awarded Fordham University professor of Childhood Special Education Su-Je Cho, Ph.D., a. $1.25M grant to lead a project titled “Developing Effective Leadership for Learners with Disabilities” (DELL). The grant will allow Project DELL to support the academic pursuits of 30 additional scholars who will study childhood special education and bilingual [...]

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The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, longtime pastor of Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, influential civil rights leader, and recent Fordham commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient, died at home in the early morning of Oct. 28. The cause was pancreatic cancer. He was 73. “Fordham joins the people of New York City, and [...]

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“The age of school choice is here,” stated Preston Green, Ed.D., J.D., during the annual 2022 Barbara L. Jackson Lecture held online October 19. Margaret Terry Orr, Ph.D., began the event by recognizing Barbara Jackson’s daughter, Caroline Jackson Smith, who was in attendance. Orr then introduced Green and the guest panelists, superintendents Sandra Montañez-Diodonet (Passaic, [...]

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New research finds structural supports needed to reinforce teachers’ existing value for multilingual students in New York City Universal Prekindergarten. In a new study from Fordham University, Instructional Practices and Supports of Emergent Multilingual Learners (EMLs) in Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) Classrooms in New York City (NYC), authors Tiedan Huang, Chun Zhang, and Caitlin Coe examined [...]

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On August 23, 2022, the New York State Education Department awarded Fordham University a $2,250,000 grant for its Liberty Partnership Program (LPP). The Fordham LPP serves five Bronx Title I high schools: Belmont Preparatory High School; Bronx High School for Law and Community Service; Fordham High School for the Arts; Jonas Bronck Academy (M.S. 228); [...]

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Fordham University Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy (ELAP) doctoral student Celeste Coleman is reflecting on her Fulbright-Hays Group Research Project in July 2022, an experience studying cultural and linguistic diversity and pedagogies in Ghanaian urban and rural public and private school settings. Coleman and 12 fellow female educators and doctoral students of color completed the [...]

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